Jury finds man guilty of killing mother-in-law with rifle

BAY MINETTE, Ala. — It took a Baldwin County jury less than half an hour this afternoon to return a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of James Morgan Dorriety, a Baldwin County man accused of killing his mother-in-law.

Circuit Judge James Reid sentenced Dorriety to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a plea agreement reached earlier this week, Dorriety admitted his guilty in the murder in exchange for having the death penalty taken off the table and additional charges against him were dropped, according to authorities with the Baldwin County District Attorney’s Office.

Dorriety intercepted his mother-in-law, Kathy Allison, of Atmore, on Aug. 3, 2008 on Baldwin County 61, where he blocked her truck with his car and shot her in the head with a rifle.